Internationalisation has become a mantra in higher education and ASEE pioneered the Global Colloquium to promote global interconnectedness.

The knowledge economy is a global network, societies of engineering education are encouraged to ‘plug in’ in various ways in order to reap the benefits of global interconnectedness, as well as to avoid the perils of parochialism. ASEE was pioneer through the Global Colloquium.

This colloquium held previously in Beijing, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul, Cape Town, Budapest, Singapore and Shangai, with the assistance of engineering education organizations from the region, links engineering educators across international borders and brings together lecturers, researchers and corporate colleagues who will have an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas and perspectives.

By bringing the forum together with the SEFI'2017 Annual Conference it will particularly bridge these two societies delegates, allowing the pursuit of cross regional future joint proposals and initiatives in the two most developed engineering education regions in the world.